(HBO) - Member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of Hoa Binh province’s Party Committee Bui Van Tinh had a working session with the provincial Department of Information and Communication on its implementation of political tasks in 2015 – 2017, major tasks in 2018-2020 and some other relevant matters. Attending the meeting were Nguyen Van Toan, Head of the provincial Party Committee’s Commission on Information and Education, and Nguyen Van Chuong, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee.


Bui Van Tinh, Party Central Committee member and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, addresses the working session.


In the period 2015-2017, the information and communication sector has developed strongly. Specifically, the post and telecommunication industry has improved quality of services, while information safety and security was insured without network congestion, thus better serving the direction and management work of Party Committees and administrations at all level and meeting people’s demand.

 

As of 2017, the province had 216 postal service points with a network of 26 post offices with 10 secondary mail lines and 34 third level ones. All communes, wards, towns, and agencies received newspapers during the day. Networks using optical cable have reached all districts and cities across the province, and the centres of 209 out of 210 communes, accounting for 99.5 percent, while 184 out of 210 communes had broadband internet infrastructure.

 The province has 743 thousand mobile phone subscribers, and 50 percent of the local population using the Internet. Telecommunication revenue is about 1 trillion VND per year, with over 80 billion VND channelled to the State budget per year.

As much as 100 percent of the communes have accessed central and local radio and television broadcasting services, while 93 percent of households have television sets, 80 percent of households watch digital TV in different forms, and 71 out of 210 communes have their own local system of loudspeakers.

Regarding key tasks in the coming time, the provincial Party Committee Secretary requested departments, agencies and press agencies pay attention to promoting the image and socio-economic potential of the locality, and organise events effectively.

 He asked for more attention to cyber security issues in order to prevent the abuse of Internet to commit law violations, and urged the authorised agencies to consider issuing mechanisms for information provision, improve the quality of press briefings, and hold emergency press conferences when necessary.

 The provincial leader also suggested holding more meetings online, while improving the operation quality of websites of sectors and localities, well implementing the regulations on spokesperson, and re-evaluating the results of coordination with Nhan Dan (People) Newspaper.

Press agencies should increase activities to popularise the Law on Cyber Security, he said, adding that the provincial authorities should design plans to enforce the law effectively./.

 

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